It has been a privilege to be part of the adventure that culminated in the Royal Society’s twin events designed to enable and encourage the forensic science community to come together to discuss and… (More)

This study investigates the optimisation of peroxidase based enhancement techniques for footwear impressions made in blood on various fabric surfaces. Four different haem reagents: leuco crystal… (More)

A variety of lighter fuel samples from different manufacturers (both unevaporated and evaporated) were analyzed using conventional gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis. In total 51… (More)

This work explores the differences between two GCMS instruments for the determination of amphetamine and methylamphetamine extracted from water samples (ultra pure water and river water) without the… (More)

Explosives residues in soils may be a useful source of evidence following the detonation of an improvised explosive device (IED), such as a vehicle-borne IED. Soil samples collected from the vicinity… (More)

Most traditional techniques to recover latent fingermarks from metallic surfaces do not consider the metal surface properties and instead focus on the fingermark chemistry. The scanning Kelvin probe… (More)

In determining the possibility that a specific weapon was responsible for a specific injury it is often valuable to examine the damage marks left on any clothing worn by a victim. Correlating this… (More)

Over the last 20 years there has been an increasing interest in the development of robust systems, both analytical and statistical, to enable the linkage of seizures of illicit drug to each other.… (More)